Jojn the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion for the third annual Fr. Drew Christiansen, SJ lecture featuring Fr. David Neuhaus, SJ. Fr. Neuhaus was born in 1962 in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is an Israeli Jesuit and Patriarchal Vicar emeritus for Hebrew-speaking Catholics in the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem. Fr. David was ordained to the priesthood in Jerusalem in 2000. He completed his Doctorate at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and has degrees in Theology from Paris, and Scriptures from the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. He was appointed Patriarchal Vicar for Hebrew-speaking Catholics in Jerusalem by Patriarch Twal in 2009, and served as Coordinator of the Pastoral Care for Migrant Workers and Asylum Seekers. He teaches at the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem Seminary and at Bethlehem University.
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Join scholars from different fields as they discuss the central themes of Türkiye, Iran, and the Politics of Comparison: America's Wife, America's Concubine, a new book by Perin Gürel, associate professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame and a faculty fellow of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, part of the Keough School of Global Affairs. With a focus on how U.S. foreign policy shaped comparative approaches to Türkiye and Iran, the panel will explore the transnational formation of national identities, gender politics, racial ideas, and religious discourse, from the Cold War to the War on Terror.
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